Deadline reports that CBS has chosen to pick up the Friday night series Fire Country for third season. This is one of the CBS original series to have been renewed for another season, including the shows Ghosts and Trackers. The series executive producers and creators are Joan Rater (Hunting Sarah, A Small Light), Max Thieriot (Bates Motel, The Pacifier), and Tony Phelan (Doubt, Council of Dads).
Thieriot plays Bode Donovan, a young prisoner hoping for forgiveness and a reduced sentence by enrolling in a prison release firefighting program in Northern California. Inmates and top firefighters collaborate on this program to put out erratic wildfires throughout the area.
Bode is placed in a program located in his hometown where he was the perfect son, until his life took an unexpected turn that left him incarcerated. Now he’s looking to start over with his life.
Among the other stars are Jules Latimer (Guilty Party, Rustin), Stephanie Arcila (Don’t Breathe 2, Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels), Diane Farr (About Cherry, Collision Earth), Jordan Calloway (Black Lightning, Riverdale), Billy Burke (Twilight, Lights Out), and Kevin Alejandro (Lucifer, Ugly Betty).
While promoting the series as one of the top six streaming series on Paramount+, the network shares that Fire Country is averaging 9.21 million viewers in live seven-day multiplatform viewing, up +7% from the previous year, according to Deadline. Fire Country, which airs on Friday nights, has averaged 7.76 million viewers in linear viewing so far this season.
The network may be considering growing the universe because the show is so popular. Morena Baccarin (Gotham, Greenland) will make an appearance in a Fire County season two episode, as Deadline exclusively revealed in January. She may go on to become a series regular in a potential spinoff series. She will play Mickey, a fifteen-year veteran of the Edgewater sheriff’s department who is familiar with every aspect of the town and all of its residents.
According to Deadline, the sheriff-focused episode is not regarded as a backdoor pilot because it will likely go through another development phase before receiving a potential series order. However, the episode’s reception will probably be crucial to the offshoot’s prospects of advancing.
Jerry Bruckheimer (Bad Boys, Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest) and KristieAnne Reed (Lucifer, Hightown) of Jerry Bruckheimer Television, Tia Napolitano (Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19), who also acts as showrunner, and Phelan, Rater, and Thieriot are the other executive producers. The show is produced by CBS Studios.
New episodes of season two are currently available to stream on Paramount+ and air on Friday nights at 9 p.m ET.